Peter Sunde, the founder of the popular torrent website, Pirate Bay, who is currently facing jail time and a whooping $700,000 fine after unsuccessfully fighting charges of encouraging copyright infringement. But were not here to talk about that matter, if you want to know more on that, feel free. Anyway, he had something really interesting to say about Apple and the Mac App Store recently which, in fact, I somewhat agree with him on what he has to say. He told Forbes and Cult of Mac a number of different things on Apple and the Mac App Store. To start off, he said to Forbes, that the Map App Store represented a “lucrative move for them to move into forcing you to use their App Store to get programs”, and “Apple is going on the path to control computer use”. Her also said this to Cult of Mac:

Even though they might not force us to use the App store today, it is of course a lucrative move for them to move into forcing you to use their app store to get programs.
The problem is actually not the app store itself, but that Apple runs it, as well as your OS and your hardware. If the app store would be a third party, no problem.
When Apple owns this store, it means that they have incentive to make it more controlled since it makes them money. THAT is the root of the problem.

I agree with somethings he says, and I do think that it’s possible that Apple could become like Microsoft one day. But we’ll have to see. For more info, and quote of his, below are the links.